After
Dexter's sister, Debra, confronts Lila in her apartment, and demands that
Lila get out of town,we
see Lila outside, running from her apartment to her car, which is parked
across the street.

Once
in her car, she takes out Dexter's GPS navigator (which she stole
from his car) and looks at his recent destinations. She selects the
Everglades cabin address, and a map appears on the unit's small screen.

Later,
she will show up at the cabin - and find Doakes being held prisoner.

Q.
What is it actually in real life?

A. A public
street, nowhere near Miami.

Q.
Where can I find it in real life?

A. The producers
didn't have far to go for this one.

The scene was
shot - literally - right across the street from the studio sound stage
where "Dexter" is filmed, at the corner
of Fountain Avenue & Beechwood Drive, in Hollywood,
CA.

The camera is
looking south/southeast as Lila runs
northwest across Fountain Avenue, to her car, which is parked on the north
side of Fountain, just west of Beechwood.

The pink/beige
Spanish-style house seen behind her (when she's sitting in her car) is
6050 Fountain. The tall building (seen on the left side of the top
photo on this page) is at 1260 Beachwood.

If the camera
turned around (to look north), you would see the white walls of Sunset-Gower
studio behind her car.

( You'll note
that you don't see Lila's actual apartment building in the background of
that scene, as she supposedly runs away from it. That's because Lila's
actual apartment house is located about
a mile to the north. )

[ I
shot the photos below in early 2009 ]

As you
can see in the photo below, the formerly pink house on the corner is no
longer pink:[ This is a private home,
do not trespass on their property or disturb the residents. ]

Not only hadn't
I found Lila's apartment at the time, but I realized that this scene, supposedly
outside that apartment, might well have been shot miles away from it
(since the apartment isn't seen in the shot).

And frankly,
Hollywood was the last place I would have expected to find it. Most of
the scenes in Dexter are shot in the Long Beach/San Pedro area, with
a few scenes shot on the west side, in the Marina Del Rey/Santa Monica
area.

Fortunately,
a fan emailed me that he had figured it out, based in part on the rather
blurry house numbers and street signs glimpsed in the scene. ( Thanks,
Todd!)